Sole to Pavement

So last weekend was my Salt to Saint bike race. It was a race from downtown Salt Lake to Saint George, Utah. We were a four man team and the total distance was about 412 miles. We each had about 6 legs of roughly 17 miles each leg, I ended up riding about 120 miles altogether. The race was a blast and we ended up doing pretty well considering how much a couple of our teammates trained. The point of this blog entry however, is to announce that after months of not running (due to my bike training) today I got out and ran just under 3 miles. It felt really good to run and I'd forgotten how much i love it, there's just something about running that feels so good...not quite sure what it is.
On October 23rd I have an Olympic tri coming up in Lake Powell and I really need to continue running and really need to hit the pool too. Swimming is going to be particularly interesting since i haven't swam at all since July and that was very sporadic then. There's a good chance I'll just drown but regardless I'm excited to start getting in shape and put together some kind of a plan.
I'm also getting really excited about Hood to Coast 2011. I realize that i might not get to do it because there's a chance we won't get drawn but I'm just excited to sign up for it! The team is slowly coming together and it seems like everyone is starting to get excited for it...I can't wait, the mother of all running relays!
I'll try to post more often on here, it really helps me to stay motivated when I know someone is reading about my workouts. So just to check in i guess: today I ran 2.8 miles and plan on doing a very light jog tonight with Janna (my 7 month pregnant wife).

So this is what has been happening

Its been a while since I last wrote on here, but don't fret I'm not out of shape and wheezing at the tops of staircases. I've been riding my bike a lot lately and I've started p90x again. My team didn't get drawn for the Lotoja race but we've signed up and already got in to another race called the Salt to Saint, its a rely style race from Salt Lake City to St. George. I'm pretty excited about it and it should be a lot of fun. Apart from my 40-60 mile rides I do several times a week I'll occasionally run or swim and I'm staying in decent shape.
Anyway, its bed time...I'll try to keep this updated more.

What have I done?!

So I signed up for a bike race that will be in September if our team gets drawn...its the Lotoja (click on the link to learn more). Its a 206 mile one day bike race from Logan, UT to Jackson Hole,WY. I'm not even close to being ready for it and its going to be a struggle to get there by the beginning of September but I'm in the lottery so we'll have to wait and see.

I'm In

Just a quick post to let everyone know that Janna and I are in for the Spudman. So come the end of July we'll be doing a race with a 1.5k swim, 40k bike, then a 10k run....its gonna be good!

Game On!

So I've been trying to get back in shape and get re-motivated and all that good stuff; well last night i think I took some great steps in getting there. For the next 89 days I'll be doing P90X while trying to prepare for a number of races as well. The P90X pretty much kicked my butt and I'm already really really sore 12 hours after the fact...not really looking forward to today's workout. I am really excited to see the results though and lose some weight and have to carry less during my races.
Speaking of races I'm thinking about doing 6 races this season. Last year I only got in 3 but it being my first year I think that was okay. I did the Stansberry Sprint, the Spudman, and the Telos Turkey Sprint. If you remember I also managed to get hurt last year and that really kind of screwed up my training. I'm hoping that P90X will get me strong enough and help me avoid injury this year. So the races that I'm thinking about doing are the Lake to Lake 50 mile relay run, Telos Timp Sprint, Cache Valley Classic Tri, Echo Tri, Spudman, Lotoja (bike race), and maybe the Provo Tri to replace anything if missed or in place of the Echo . I'm already registered for the Spudman but its a lottery so I'll have to wait and see, and I already have a team for the Lake to Lake relay.
Lake To Lake
Running through St. George I'll be doing a 50 mile running race with Janna, Blake and Aubree Vogt, and Brady Thomas. We all have 2 legs, each leg averaging about 5 miles. Race day is March 6th and I'm not going to be in peak shape yet. I know I can run 5 miles no problem but its going to be slow and I'm going to be dead after my second run. We just barely got our team together and are registering within the next couple of days, we're just gathering money now.
So there is my season outlook so far, good chance some of it will change...Lotoja is no walk in the park, I'll need to be ready to actually consider it but now I've got some serious motivation and races to actually train for...wish me luck.

I hate being sick...and out of shape

Yesterday since we did not have school I took it upon myself to get in a really good workout. I woke up feeling pretty sick and knew it was going to be a rough day, my head was pounding and my nose was totally plugged. After finding some way to motivate myself I went to the gym and got all warmed up and hopped in the pool for a workout I had made for myself. I wanted to know how I was doing as far as being ready for the swim portion of a sprint tri. I did an 800 meter time trial that in all reality kicked my trash. I know Stephanie would laugh but I went a 12:33. That's definitely not my best but I think its an ok start for the season. All together my workout was only 1750 m long, for me right now, this was sufficient to kick my butt and I was dead when I got home. I had told Janna that I would go running with her in the evening though and so I managed to gather some energy from somewhere to get out and run in the 36 degree weather. I was feeling horrible before we even started and after one mile of our four mile run I knew I was in trouble. I could hardly breathe due to all the crap in my lungs and I was so tired from swimming that Janna immediately left me in her dust. I finally caught her at just before three miles but right then we hit a hill and I was done for, she seriously took off and by the time we finished I could hardly even see her (the last mile is a straight stretch). With about a half mile to go I was doing the old man shuffle just kind of sliding my feet along the pavement and I was actually wheezing. I spent the rest of the night trying to recover and I haven't felt that crappy in a long time. I was able to take some comfort in the fact that my best time on that run did kick the crap out of Janna's time but it still sucked.

Motivation is Key

Without a doubt motivation is the number one force when it comes to getting anything done concerned with workouts. Unfortunately this is also probably my weakest link. I don't really have a problem with finishing workouts or even finding time to do them but its the lack of motivation or drive that really makes it hard for me, and I'd imagine for most runners too. Today I was searching for some motivation and instead came across this:
Running Rules of Thumb

1. If you see a porta potty with no line, use it. Even if you don't need to.
2. If you have to ask yourself, Does this driver see me? The answer is no.
3. If you have to ask yourself, Are these shorts too short? The answer is yes.
4. 1 glazed doughnut = 2 miles
5. You rarely regret the runs you do; you almost always regret the runs you skip.
6. Not everyone who looks fast really is, and not everyone who looks slow really is.
7. Nobody has ever watched Chariots of Fire from beginning to end. Not even the people who made it.
8. You can never have too many safety pins on your gym bag.
9. Running any given route in the rain makes you feel 50 percent more hard-core than covering the same route on a sunny day.
10. If you care even a little about being called a jogger versus a runner, you're a runner.
-taken from Runnersworld.com and an article by Mark Remy

Oddly enough this actually served as motivation for me; I remembered that I am some sort of runner and that this simple fact sets me apart from the rest and makes me better. How do those rules do that? I get them and laughed at them, so I can see that I'm not your average idiot who never runs or does workouts. In short I can draw motivation from that cause I realize that unless I get outside and actually do something I will become one of them.
Motivation can come from anything...we just have to think it through and get ourselves there.

New Start?

My training routine of late has been pathetic at best. I have managed to run and ride a couple of times throughout the last couple of months but overall my workouts have been weak and without a purpose. Janna and I are trying to figure out what races we want to do for 2010 but until we actually register for something I'll probably have problems finding drive to do anything. I did manage to get a mile swim in today. Its the first time I've been in the water in a long time. It felt really good but I'm obviously out of shape.
A couple races that we are thinking about doing this year are the Spudman Tri in Idaho, the Lake Powell Tri, and a 5 person 50 mile relay in St. George. Really though we need to get signed up for some of that stuff and make some commitments. I also plan on doing the Lotoja which is a one day bike race from Logan, UT to Jackson Hole, WY. Should be good if I can come up with the money for all that and actually manage to train. Another concern that I have is my body...I hope it holds up this year.
In short I just need to start over and rededicate myself to training. As of late I've just been packing on weight and losing any kind of athleticism that I may have had. Yep, its definitely time for a new start.

Training Helps

I'm pretty sure that I've wrapped up my triathlon season...its been pretty short and I did my third tri last Saturday. I did the Telos Turkey Tri in Orem, UT and it ended up being a great day for a tri in November. Because its a bit cold this time of year the swim was indoor and so the race was reverse order (run, bike, swim). It was also a shorter race than I've ever done; we ran a 5k, biked only 10 miles, and then swam only 350 meters. Really the distance of the swim was a great disadvantage to me, however it was nice cutting like 13 minutes of the race time.
One big problem that I suffered from was a lack of preparation, training actually helps and I didn't do very much of it to get ready for the race. I haven't been swimming at all really and I stopped biking about 3 weeks ago because of the cold weather, the only thing I've even been doing sporadically is running and even those haven't been very quality runs. I'd like to find some races for the winter but have no idea where they have winter races and how I would train for them but we'll see.

Time to re-dedicate

Its been quite a while now since a wrote in here about anything. The last week in July I did the
Spudman Tri in Burley, Idaho. I did okay but really wasn't prepared for it the way that I should have been. As a result I ended up cramping really bad for half of the run...it was pretty miserable. Since that race I haven't really been training too hard at all. I've been riding my bike fairly consistently but my running has been sporadic at best and swimming non existent. I've managed to pack on some extra pounds around the mid section and really I just don't feel very good about myself right now. So its time to once again dedicate myself to training. Hopefully I've given my knee ample time to heal and I'll be good to go. Really I think that running is the core of my training process, its what motivates me to get better and better and I work my other trainings around its schedule. First thing first I need a training plan....time to get to work.
Train hard and win big!

A Depressing Day

It has been 18 days since I last ran more than 50 yards. Today as I was driving I saw a ton of people out for jogs and I was getting the urge to get out there and join them. Not being able to run has really been pretty depressing for me, if it weren't for swimming and cycling I would probably be hating the whole world right now. As I was driving and feeling this urge to get out there and join the pack, I managed to talk myself out of it as I knew my knee was still hurt....but then I saw her. There she was trotting along without a care in the world just enjoying life to its fullest; she was an overweight over-aged women. That's when I started getting pissed! How is it that a fat old women can run and I a 23 year old in shape kid can't?! So I threw out all reason and decided to finally strap on the running shoes and go out for a run. I decided that I would stop running as soon as my knee first felt pain.
I started out feeling great, had a decent pace going but wasn't pushing myself hard by any means. The first mile went by and all was good, I actually began to think that maybe during my forced time off the knee had got better. At mile 2 I realized that it was all in vain as my knee suddenly started hurting just as bad as before, so I walked back to the truck cussing the whole way. Looks like I'm still injured. Really sucks!
I'm pretty worried about my race that's coming up in a month and a half, I need to train for it by running...not just swimming and biking.

Saturday Race Day

So I've now done a triathlon and I can say it was pretty sweet. I was way nervous on Friday night and once Saturday rolled around I couldn't even eat. I felt like I was about to swim at state finals. Right before the race I actually managed to calm down though and kind of clear my head.
PRE-RACE
I woke up around 6:00 and drove to the Burnham's house cause we were all going up there together. I slept most of the way to the Toole, where the race was. Once we got there I really had no idea what to expect and I think that is why I was so nervous. We unloaded all the bikes and started setting up. For the first 15 minutes or so I just kind of watched all the other athletes trying to figure out what my routine would be. After getting checked in and all that I went over to the transition area and found my spot on the bike rack and got set up. This was more challenging than you might think because I didn't know what I was going to want between events, I basically just copied the guy next to me and it seemed to work okay. At 9:00 the olympic distance guys went off and that was kind of cool to see them swim, I still had an hour before my race though. People around me were getting there wetsuits on and stretching out. I thought that was kind of stupid cause we still had an hour to go, and I was right, I latter heard them complaining that they were sweating to death.
THE SWIM
I've never swam with a full wetsit on before, but I liked it. We were allowed to start in the water and actually get in about 4 minutes before we took off. I tried to warm up a little bit but didn't really know what to do so basically just floated there, this would come back to haunt me. I consider myself a decent swimmer so I went up close to the starting line, second row back. Well turns out that I do swim fairly fast and I should have gone first row, some idiot that was much slower than me made it so I was caught in the middle of the pack after about 15 seconds. At that point someone from behind decided that they were tired of being there too and actually swam right over me, surprisingly this didn't really affect me though and I decided to follow him. At this point I realized that open water swimming in a race is nothing like race swimming in a pool, it was either get out of my way or pay the price. I soon found myself doing exactly what had been done to me, I swam right over someone. I didn't help that the water was so murky, every stroke I would take I would lose sight of my arm at about the elbow. I did manage to kind of break away from the pack and with about 300 meters to go of the 250 M swim my arms started to get really super tight and cramp a little bit (next time I'll warm up better) but I still managed to finish and was withing the first 10 out of the water.
THE BIKE
Getting out of the water and running to the transition area was interesting because I had no shoes on and was kind of light headed, try swimming for 13 minutes then running. People were cheering though and I managed to keep going. The actual change took me longer than I wanted but once I was on my bike I was doing well. Still a little wet it was kind of cold at first, and it took my legs a good mile just to get warm. I was going pretty good though and actually managed to pass a couple of people, until the last 3 miles when the wind was suddenly in my face and my legs were getting tired. I pretty much died and people started passing me, even my "big" friend Matt passed me. I was also only wearing a jammer so by mile 6 my butt was getting pretty sore. I did finish though and going into the transition area I knew I was going to have to go pretty fast on the run to make up for my loss in the bike. My knee was beginning to give me a little trouble though.
THE RUN
I haven't done a whole lot of running right after biking and it would have really helped to have done some. My legs felt like jello and even though I wasn't at a lose of breath I just couldn't go. I managed to keep going though and pushed through the awkward feeling until I eventually got the blood going through my body a little bit. I could see my Matt about 200 meters away and all I wanted to do was beat him, I really didn't have anything much left in the tank though. By the halfway point (1.5 miles) I had closed the gap between us to about 80 meters. I really started to to try and catch him at that point and gave it all I had. My knee was killing me by this point but I caught him with about .25 miles to go. I hung with him a while then with about 200 meters to go there was a hill and I went numb and just started running as fast as I could. That last bit of the race is the best part because everyone is there cheering you on and you feel pretty good, once you finish just the sense of accomplishment is good enough to make you want to do it again.
THE RESULTS
So it turns out that I ended up beating Matt by 8 seconds and got first in my age group (20-24). They actually gave me a medal and it was all pretty cool. Overall I placed 25th and in all the guys I placed 22nd out of 112. Do for being my first tri ever I feel pretty good with the results.
The swim took me 12 min 44 sec for 750 M. My first transition 2:16. The bike took me 39:50 to go 12.4 miles. My second transition only took 39 seconds because all I had to do was get off my bike, I still don't have cycling shoes. The run 3.1 mile run I managed to do in 23:55 going at a 7:43 min/mile pace. Total time was 1:19:22. My goal was 1:15:00 but I'm still okay with my time. Really though it was a lot of fun and I'm psyched to do another race.If you click on the pic it will get a little bigger.

Just 2 Miles to Go

Last Friday I ran further than I have ever ran and went 9.4 miles, after doing so my ankle was kind of jacked up and I decided to take a few days off to recover; by doing this however I lost some of my drive for running. Three days passed and I finally motivated myself, against my will, to get out and run on Tuesday, I went 3.9 miles and the run hurt the whole way. The next day I decided to do the same run and it seemed to go a little better. Yesterday I came to the conclusion that I needed to stop pampering myself because I only have a little over 2 weeks until my sprint tri so I decided to go for a 5.9 mile run that I've done a bunch of times. I headed out at a decent pace and decided to run the easy way, hitting up all the hills first leaving me a relatively flat 3 mile finish. The run was going well and I was actually feeling pretty loose, the sun was out and there was a cool breeze to keep me from getting too hot, in short it was a great day for running. When I had almost reached mile 4 I realized that there seemed to be some road construction up ahead. I wasn't too worried because from past experience I figured I could just run through the construction zone and no one would care; turns out though that they had totally closed the road! Once I got up to where they had closed the road off I was stopped by some construction dude who seriously looked like he thought he was a body guard for someone special. I asked him if I could just run through to the other side (200 yards away) really quickly as I was almost done with my run. He apologized and explained that due to the dangerous machinery I wouldn't be able to pass and would have to find another way. "Dangerous Machinery", ie: 1 dump truck, a front end loader, a couple pick-up trucks, and a bunch of guys standing around doing nothing.
I thought I could possible woo him with my amazing convincing skills and explaining that if I were to just run back the way I'd come it would end up being an 8 mile killer hill run and that if he let me go through I'd be careful and be done in with my run in a matter of minutes, just two miles to go. He looked at me like he really didn't care, kinda smirked and said, "Wow, 8 miles huh? That would be a pretty decent run then!" The over-weight construction dude obviously wasn't a runner of any kind and I could then tell I was only wasting my time.
I really didn't want to run the hills again because they would have killed me, so I took off down a side street in hopes of finding a way to the other side of the freeway where I needed to be. Yeah the section they had closed off was actually an underpass below the freeway to the only road that led back to my house.
After running down a road that ran parallel with the I-15 I finally found an overpass that crossed the freeway and after making a couple wrong turns down dead end streets I finally made it back to my route and finished the run. I ended up having to run an extra 2.5 miles so instead of my 5.9 mile run I ended up going 8.4 thanks to the fat construction dude, but I guess it all ended up okay. The moral of the story: watch out for road construction! It can totally change your run.

April

With less than two months to go before my first event in Salt Lake I decided going into April that I really needed to pick it up with my workouts and start increasing my efforts in order to get in shape. April was a good month for me and I feel like I was able to take some big steps of progression. I was able to get in over 50 miles of run training, doubled my swim, increased the bike by a little too, and incorporated weight lifting into the mix also. Lucky for me I have no social life cause otherwise all this would be affecting it. On a typical workout day I spend around three hours training, which feels really good to know that I'm actually doing something again. With any other sport like baseball, football, or anything you easily spend that much time training so I felt like I wasn't doing enough when I would go run for 30 minutes and be done, but now that I've got a good base and can do some serious training sessions I just feel good again.
Yesterday I ran the farthest I ever have at any one time, running 9.4 miles. I did it at an 8:39 min/mile pace taking me 1:21:30 and felt really good, lately though I've had this pain when I run on the inside of my left ankle, while running yesterday it would sometimes hurt but wasn't that bad....I should have iced it but didn't so it hurts pretty bad today and is kinda swollen. Really though I'm not too worried about it as it doesn't seem that serious.
I'm excited for the races I have that are coming up and hope I'll be able to do well in them. I'm not too worried about the sprint because I know I'm already in shape for it and that it will just be a matter of working out the kinks and nerves of never doing a tri before. The whole not having a bike issue has got me a bit nervous I'm really not sure how I will deal with that yet, and I still need to find a wetsuit to swim in....which I've never done before, I don't know how it will affect my stroke. All in all though I feel better about it all now than I did before April.

Fear

I've decided that I've going to be doing the Portland Marathon this year and because of that I'm started running on a more frequent basis, but the last couple of runs I have noticed a little pain in my left ankle. I really don't think this is anything to be too worried about as the pain comes and goes and in never that intense, just to be safe though I took the day off and have only stretched the ankle and haven't really put any stress on it, tomorrow I'll try it out for 6 miles and see how it goes. Like I said I'm not really that concerned about it but it makes me think and leads me to my biggest athletic fear, what if I actually get injured while working out and it sets me back weeks? I really don't have that kind of time to recover and rebuild. I guess there really isn't anything I can do if it happens but it's definitely one of my fears. Another fear is that I will come down with some kind of sickness at some point with only weeks or worse days before an event. That would basically have the same effect as an injury.
Then there is the ever present "super-virus" fear. First let me explain what the super-virus is. Genetically Doug (my brother) seems to be plagued and I managed to catch it in a foreign country. Basically its when you get diarrhea for no apparent reason at all. Laugh or gag all you want but this is a legitimate fear. If this were to happen in the middle of a race what do I do? Odds are it won't happen but odds are that planes won't crash either but it happens. One such experience happened to me yesterday in fact (not a plane crash). I had about half a mile left on a 6 mile run and was feeling pretty good when all of the sudden my stomach starting turning for no apparent reason. With 50 yards to go it was as if someone hit the emergency release button and I was serious trouble and now pain. It took all I had left in me to luckily make it to the restrooms that were located at the park I had ran from, but what if this would have happened about a mile earlier....not pretty. So you can see why this is an actual fear for me.
Well I guess if something happens whether torn something or something less sanitary I'll just have to deal with it when it happens....life's kind of that way.

Just some quick stats

After all I'm a baseball fan so here are some of my running stats
Miles ran:
February 20.4
March 30.0
April 25.3
Total 75.7
I bought a pair of running shoes March 11th and they cost me $92, so they have really cost me $1.81 per mile. Unfortunately I haven't done as good of a job with my swimming and biking stats but they basically would reflect the same thing, increasing monthly. I expect my running total for April to be at least 40 miles.

Still Here

So its been quite a while since my last entry but that doesn't mean that I haven't been working out and training for triathlons. In fact I've been doing some pretty decent workouts and I really feel like I'm making some progress. Today I actually signed up for two triathlons: the Stansbury Park Sprint Tri and the Burley Idaho Annual Spudman, which is an Olympic size race. The Stansbury Park is on May 23rd and consists of a 750 meter swim in open water in a man-made lake, 20 kilometer bike ride, and then a 5 kilometer run. This will be my first time at an actual race type triathlon and just thinking about it makes me kind of nervous, but I'm really looking forward to it. Some challenges I have to face besides actually doing the race are, what I will use for a bike, and what I will use as gear for the event ie: wetsuit, ect.
The Spudman is the last Saturday in July and consists of a 1500 meter downstream swim in a river, 24.9 mile bike, and a 6.2 mile run to kill you off at the end. By July I hope to be in really good shape and kind of have a decent idea as to what I'm doing.
I haven't really decided yet but I think I'd really like to do the Portland Marathon this year too, I just have to see if I can fit training for it and the actual race into my schedule. But those are my plans so far, the two tri's are a go already.

Getting there...kinda

Well it kind of feels like I'm starting to get to where I want to. I had some really good swims the last couple of days and my running times have actually dropped too. However the bike is really taking second to the other training, I hate riding stationary bikes and that's really my only option. All in all though I think I'm doing okay considering I have no idea how to properly train for one of these things.
Since spring break has started I've been able to focus a little bit more on training and its been good, I also went out and bought some food so that I could eat a little better. In all honesty I would say that the biggest challenge that I face right now for keeping me from competing in a triathlon would have to be that I don't actually have a bike to either train on or compete on.

I need to eat better

I decided to take Friday off from everything even though it was suppose to be my bike day; there's just something about biking in a 20 x 20 room all by myself that is just not that exciting for me. Yesterday I ran just over 3.5 miles and did it at about an 8 min/mile pace. The run felt really good and everything felt pretty loose. I was also running with someone so it was a lot easier to push myself. I've found I'm a pretty competitive person and I really need someone with the same goals as me to train with out here.
Today I went for a run too but it was brutal. I had planned on doing a 6 mile run and felt great going out. Before the run I did some sets of push-ups and abs, but still felt good when I left the house. The first 2 miles of the run felt really good, I was holding around a 8.5 pace and was really loose and doing fine. From mile 2 to 3 I started getting tired and knew that I was in trouble because this run I do is fairly flat and easy for the first half and then I have to climb 2 long steep hills and down another steep one on the second half. At three mile I hit the first hill and it totally killed me. About 200 yards after the hill I was hardly even moving, taking baby steps and breathing really hard, my legs seriously felt like lead. I was also getting really really hot with my black cold gear Under-armor sleeves on, it was almost 60 out there today. So I walked until I caught my breath and then took my sleeves off and started running with them in my hand, however this was really annoying so I stopped again and hid them in somebodies bushes. I made it maybe another mile before I was dying again, just before I was about to go up the second big hill so I stopped again. About that time I decided the run wasn't worth it and took a short cut home that cut off a good .75 mile from my run and totally avoided the hill.
I actually ended running a 9:05 pace (averaged out that is) and managed to run that last mile or so back to my truck pretty hard, but what happened out there today?
Well I think it has a lot to do with my eating habits. Lots of days I'll only eat one meal around 2:00 and that's it. On other days I'll eat noting but cereal and PB & J sandwiches. If I'm going to get serious about doing triathlons or even just getting in decent shape I need to eat better more balanced varied meals, I need to get some kind of eating routine and stick to it. On that note a good sleeping pattern probably wouldn't hurt either.

its been a while

We dad mid-terms last week at UVU and it really affected my workout schedule as well as my blog writing. I did manage to go running one day and get a swim in too. This week though I've been doing pretty good. Sunday I ran just short of 4.5 miles at a 8:30 pace. Monday I swam 2000 meters mixing between kick and freestyle in about 45 minutes. Tuesday I biked for 30 straight minutes at a pretty good pace but I have no idea how far I went cause it was a stationary bike in a gym....very boring. Wednesday I ran 5.9 miles in 50 minutes, just faster than a 8:30 pace. Today I plan on getting another swim in, hopefully a little more than 2000 meters but its hard because there is no one to push me or anything and its really boring.
I went ahead and got some new shoes from nike. I got the nike free everyday shoes, I found them to be really comfortable for being brand new shoes though I did get a pretty nasty blister on the inside of one of my arches. Yesterday's run felt pretty good and I didn't really realize how tired I was until I got home and sat down and just fell asleep. During the run I was full of energy but totally dead afterward, that's what I get for taking a week off. Today I woke up and could hardly walk! My left knee is killing me, its very tender and feels like someone smashed it with a football helmet. I'm hoping that it will heal fast and won't affect me during my next run which won't be for a couple more days.
Back to my running shoes, they are really ugly but I like em. They are white with gray trim and then the whole back is a fluorescent yellow. It kind of hurts your eyes to look at them but as long as I run fast and blur it all together maybe people won't notice. But really running shoes don't have to look nice....they're running shoes.